Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Transparency

Super quick update: We've now added transparency settings. Try it out under the "Advanced options" in the "Themes and Colors" section - and be sure to call out any designs you're particularly proud of in the comments. We'd love to show it off in the list of channels on the right hand side of this blog. In fact, you can now modify two different levels of transparency: One for the modules, and one for the wrapper. (The wrapper can even be completely transparent.)

There is still the grid view glitch.Another member is also experiencing it.In the previous blog, you asked me what browser I had. I replied but didn't know whether you seen it because of the spamming that was going on.Just incase you didn't see my reply, I use IE8, Windows Vista.I also made a video to illustrate the glitch:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLKS107y7Co

I've poked around a bit with the transparency options you added and found a glitch.

The area that posts the links: "Info|Comments|Favorite|Share|Playlists|Flag" will not change from White. Even when I adjust the Wrapper text color or Wrapper Link Color to be black or some other color, it does not change when I SAVE it. Then I return to edit adv options and it is back to White.

I am replying to your question in the blog titled "More Channel Updates" on July 8, 2009 7:33 PM.No, I do not have the screenshot of the overlap on the right side. I forgot who's channel I was viewing than had the overlap issue. If I encounter the overlap again I'll let you know.--

Also, a few more suggestion

1.) You said that you may give us the ability to right click on a video thumbnail and choose "open in new window". Please allow us to right click and "open in new tab" for those who use Internet Explorer.

2.) The "edit" button next to the player view and grid view buttons should be moved next to the "Settings". "Themes and Colors", and "Modules" button. It feels more natural to look there for the edit button.

3.) In the future, it would be nice if the transparency settings was a slider rather than a drop down box.

4.) The "Search uploads" button should be replaced with an actual search button, like the light blue search button used to search YouTube videos.To see how this would look, I screen captured my channel and pasted it into Photoshop. I then erased "Search upload" and replaced it with the light blue search button. It looked much better than the plain text "search uploads" button.Then I was thinking that maybe the color of search button on the channel could be changed to match the channel's "Themes and colors".--

One thing I like about the new channel is the grid view and how every video is on a single page. With the old channel, you had to click "next" to view the next set of videos. Having all the video on a single page and using the scroll bar has made browsing videos on a channel much more convenient. Thank you for this feature.--

Brian,Still messing with Transparency and I'm back to say the change of the color for Wrapper Links works for another channel I have that does not have a background graphic loaded, but for the one that has one loaded (godsaystoshare) it will not change colors.

Please listen me, people of Youtube, I´m so glad to see the Transparency theme, i check it out and now the channels get a life, more brightness and i can say that have personality.But exists, another problems out of the "transparency", that is the "videolog".I want to ask you that try to offers the new channels with this option, please is like the channel left one part so much important.And the ohter thing that i want that you and the team of Youtube review is that in the title of the channel i can write few words, and this is so limitate, and the oter thing, is that try to build a space, a little of oxigen in the new channels, cause i think all the modules are all together, so close one module to another.And the last thing that i want to ask to you, is try to put the favourites modules apart to the own uploads.Thanks for read this message, i hope that try to review my comment, and say that we are so impatient so see the all the problems finally fixed it.Hefestion.

I´m here again, and this comment is how to say.... mmm, social... cause i can see in the original video from youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cw-NILysH1w&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fyoutube-espanol.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F06%2Fproximamente-nuevos-canales.html&feature=player_embedded

that so much people are angry with the new design of the Youtube channels, i´m not conform with yours in totally with the newest but i trust that you make and offer us all the options finally fixed.I was prefer that we can decide to continue or not with the classic design, i prefer the classic, but you (Youtube) are be the responsability to bring us calm and peace cause i can see so much discusting about all this theme.Once again i trust in yours that you make an excellent and brilliant Youtube 2.0 with lifem and oxigen to everyone.Thanks, to read this mesagge.Hefestion.

Thank you very much! I saw this last night and acted on it right away. Again, you have gone out of your way to listen to reasonable suggestions on the new layout. Thank you for including us in the process.

What the hell is going on here? Why can't I back to the old design? I hate the new design why did you change my old one to the new one? Even in the new my featured video doesn't appear so tell me how to fix that? For God's sake I want the old design back cause when I switch to it it doesn't work!!!!!! need answers urgently please!!!!

I don't see the transparency working in the color palette's section, just in the wrapper. As a matter of fact, when I changed from None to 40% and save changed in the wrapper, it worked but when I try the opposite, 40% to None (or any other value), it stays the same at 40% and the options still says None (or any other value). Please look into this as it is not fully functional yet from what I am experiencing.

Alright, I refreshed my channel and it seems to be working again, sorry YouTube. I have never used transparency before (even in the old channels) and I thought I should just give it a try. My result kinda came bad on my part probably because of the lack of a background image. Well here it is anyways. Probably better with transparency so that I get less eye strain complaints.

There should be an option to replace the new video navigator thing on the top of the page with just a box with the featured video, followed by the playlist box, then the boxes with the uploaded videos and favorites, simmilar to the old channels. In addition to this, there should be a way to get to the seperate view playlist/video/favorites pages from the new video navigator.

Look Youtube management. I do like the idea to have the conversion to the new layout optional. I don't have negative stuff to say about the new layout except the new youtube header above (the one above the new edit bar)can you make it look like the old one, with the search bar on the right side and everything small, and also make the edit bar collapsible. That would definitely make the new layout BETTER and MORE people will LOVE it. Thanks.

First of all I really like the new features. But there seems to be an intermittent problem with displaying All, Uploads, Favorites. If I don't login and I click on one of the above links I get an Unknown list message. Doesn't happen all the time and it seems to only happen when I use FireFox, Safari seems to work okay.

hi brian my channels still hopelessly broken in firefox i get a google illegal request message in IE8 i get the 500 server error when ever i try to edit AYTHING on my channel (edit channel& branding options) it does it as soon as i update then it crashes i have the beta layout on the old channel and half my profile description has dissappeared the channel apart from comments ,vids and p.m.'s is effectivly frozen ,i cant upload ,edit,customise in IE8 and firefox 3.5 and i cant do ANYTHING in firefox at all!!as much as id like to check out the new transparencies i cant!!

The transparency is okay, but the wrapper needs to hug the edge of the modules like a frame. I have this ugly black box at the bottom of my page under the modules. It would be much better if the wrapper took the shape of the modules.

The new transparency features are 100 times better than the original beta. However, I'd still like to be able to show more of my background image to viewers without a wide-screen monitor. Allowing the bg image to extend below the content area would be a great option. This is not a top priority, though.

Thank you for the recent update! ^_^ But now I can't change the colors of my theme, I'm stuck with the red and black colors I had when trying out beta. Also, when I don't have my comments, friends and other stuff showing on my channel I have a HUGE block of color still covering the background.

Thanks a lot for the transparency, but did you do something that now does not allow us to have animated backgrounds? Or is it just my computer?I really enjoyed my background animated-- the stars just twinkle, and it wasn't garish like some animated backgrounds.

Has youtube ever considered implementing the ability to subscribe to a specific playlist within a channel? I've found it's needed, in particular with Machinima (the unstoppable juggernaut that gobbles up every independent gaming video), I can't subscribe to them and get what I want to see without getting 10 other videos I don't care about. Being able to subscribe only to the playlists I like would be great.

Hi I just switched and like it (foxglove63). I do have one question though and it has nothing to do with transparency.

Is there a way to keep the background from not scrolling with the rest of the page? I use my own BG and with the old design it stayed put, there was the option to do that. If that option is there now I'm missing it and I've looked every where, darn little button is lost ;)

Thanks guys. I do love the new design though, much more organized, cleaner looking. Great job!!

can you fix the white on the right of the channel if you scroll to the left there is no back ground but white and it looks weird unless you have a white background.Take a look at my cannel if you want to see what I mean http://www.youtube.com/metazoxan2

You know the old saying "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."? Well, I dislike the new beta channels, as there was nothing wrong to begin with. Every suggestion I have is pretty much already satisfied by the channels that have been in existence for quite awhile now:

1) Make the actual profile of the user appear on the top right of the channel; chances are, when I go to a channel, I want to quickly read about the user, and then go to the videos, not the other way around.

2) Allow videos to be viewed in their own separate page when clicked on from the channel, as if the video was clicked on when searching videos normally, as opposed to simply displaying it in the channel; this is especially beneficial when commenting (though I personally don't comment much) and reading comments, as well as there being less "distraction" from the channel itself.

3) You say the new design improves the ability to organize. I find it the exact opposite way around. While there was a grid view added for this beta, even that is worse than on the current channel design. You say that you can now arrange videos and playlists on your channel, but as far as I'm concerned, that was already satisfied by the current channels, which allowed users to place which 9 videos and 3 playlists can be displayed on the profile.

Now the above 3 things were already available with the current channel design. In general, the beta just looks clunky. I'm all for change as much as the next guy, but if you can only see the outcry against the new beta channels, you would either implement my suggestions into the new channel, or you would give users the option of choosing which channel layout to use, an option which has been suggested by THOUSANDS, maybe even TENS OF THOUSANDS of users, but you have forcefully ignored. Because of the current forced implementation, many users who oppose the new channel design are boycotting or will boycott Youtube, either in favor of other sites, or just stopping altogether. Now, is that what you want to do, hinder creativity and lose valuable members, thereby decreasing the number of viewers as a result? I think not.

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Aside from this, I have a few suggestions not currently available with either channel design:

1) Allow users to search their favorites. This would be very beneficial to those users who have a few hundred videos in their favorites, but can't remember when they favorited the video and don't know what page it's on.

2) Allow users to choose how many videos are displayed on a page when browsing a user's videos with the grid view. Maybe options like 10, 20, 30, 50, 75, 100, but anything to improve navigation.

3) Allow users to go to the last page of videos when browsing a user's videos. This is especially useful if a user has hundreds of videos uploaded, and you want to see their earlier videos. Currently, it's annoying to click on page 5, then every 2 pages afterward, until you reach the end. Add a last page button, or even allow the user to skip to any page they want.

Thank you Youtube for listening to my suggestions. If you knew what you were doing, and you really want users to be satisfied, you'd take my suggestions and USE THEM. A successful business would listen to ALL of its users as a whole, not just those users who (blindly) favor every decision it makes. Well, the time has come for Youtube to listen to ALL of its users. Otherwise, you risk losing and alienating many dedicated users who don't like the new channels, who might even go to one of your competitors instead because they didn't screw around with anything. Is that what you really want: your competitors receiving more traffic, because you made a stupid decision? I thought not. Youtube has practically become THE greatest video site on the Internet; if you screw around with its design so much, it might lose that status quickly. Once again, thank you for reading, and PLEASE take these suggestions to heart.

can you fix the white on the right of the channel if you scroll to the right there is no back ground but white and it looks weird unless you have a white background.Take a look at my cannel if you want to see what I mean http://www.youtube.com/metazoxan2

Awesome job guys! I don't need transparency because I don't mind not having a bg. But I'm glad other users can use it to suit their needs. I like custom making channel colors. Do you like my color theme?

It gets better and better im very happy with how my channel has finally turned out. Did yall take away the feature where when one video finished it automatically moved to the next video? Cause i thought that was pretty cool cause you could just sit back and watch someones entire catalog.

Hell, Mr. YouTube Team! After the new channel designs are implemented, when will you then add the option to use superior, classic-style channel designs? I am very anxious to know when these terrible new designs will go away! Thank you!

This happens to me too regarding the featured video continuing to play when you click on the grid view button. Brian, I suggest that the video pauses when you click on the grid view button. Then if a user decides to click on the player view button, the video continues to play.

Hiya I know you guys are fixing bugs and stuff so can you try and fix a bug where I can't change my background on the blog or normal channel layout.. my friends can do it for me, but not my friends from where i am from, could it be something to do with where i am located?

Some of you are suggesting features or reporting bugs that were already answered by Brian in the last page of the previous blog titled "More Channel Updates". Go to the last page and there is a long list of replies by Brian.

Brian, in the player view, below the video, under the "info" tab, it shows how many views a video has. Next to "From: username|# views", I would also like to see how many comments a video has. So it could be something like this:"From: username|200 views|50 comments".

Also, this is regarding the profile picture at the very top of the channel. I've suggested before that the profile picture at the top should be slightly larger. My username is part of my profile picture but it is difficult to see the text. Making it bigger, however would mean having a vertically wider bar at the top, which wouldn't look good. By bar, I mean the horizontal bar that includes my username, the subscribe button, player view and grid view button. What I suggest instead is make the profile picture larger but don't let it fit inside the border that includes the username. Instead, make it overlap and be superimposed on the bar. You may need to shift the username and subscribe button to the right a little though.

the align bug is only in safary, logged in or not, here is a Sc of safari: (too low) http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/2349/picture2izz.pngand the correct one from firefox: just ok http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/3792/picture3vzr.pngopera(too low): http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/2703/picture4mds.png

also notice how te arrow looks different in all 3, and the transparency is really uneven on all 3 (opera is 100% all the way)

the issue is: in the past you had http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=musicformachines&view=videos which was not ideal but at least had JUST the uploads, no bio, friends, subs, comments, so faster to load and right clickable to open many clips in many tabs to load them

now we are stuck with this: http://www.youtube.com/user/muzik4machines#grid/uploads which is longer to load cause there is way more content to load(and most of it is not needed when you link from an external site (the embed also vanishad on all pages i had it...)

i ask, because in the past i used to iframe the uploads page on my site http://muzik4machines.com/videos/index.html and it still looked pretty good, now its a stale blank background (could the playlists BG match the channel?) and when i embed the whole channle in the iframe, i end up with my header, your header, my banner THEN the videos almost halfway down, plus it loads the bio (again) and comments/subs etc

maybe if there was just an embed code for the video navigator, THAT would be really cool as i could replace the playlist http://muzik4machines.com with the whole navigator (with the ad) on my front page (but i guess there is probably legal objections for that one, even tho the ads will show and all clips would be piped thru the navigator)anyway, jsut an idea, i really miss being able to have a page with only all uploads

also the arrow is still not transparent nor is the box around comments, http://youtube.com/muzik4machines, i made the wraper white for showing, and look at the arrow edges too, really cropped out and difinately not transparent :)

I HATE these new channels, I couldn't hate them any more than I do. No more can I open videos in separate pages and wait for them to load while I view others. The right click and 'Open in new Window' thing doesn't work at all. And that is just the beginning of my problems with the new channels. I switched mine to the new channel but have now switched back.

Right now I have about... 1 billion subscriptions. Give or take a mill.

I've always wished I could separate my subscriptions into categories.

I have serious stuff.

I have comedy.

I have have weird stuff that fits neither.

And more.

It might not be so bad. But, right now, even if I visit the last page of my subscriptions, I can only go back 4 hours about.

I was hoping to be able to make 'different feeds' for myself depending on the mood.

That reminds me of another MISSING FEATURE in the beta.

How do I subscribe to someone's favorites?

I NEED THAT.

There are 2 main types of users on YT. Uploaders. And Collectors (AKA favoriters)....

Or did you make the subscribe button subscribe us to both favs and uploads? That would be good too. Generally I like both for any given person, and they are usually the same type.

Here's an idea. The subscribe button should auto subscribe you to both favs and uploads. However, at the point of subscribing, you can turn one or the other off if you want. Like, when you click the Subscribe button, a box will appear and it will have two green checkmarks. At this point (or later in your subscription center) turn one or the other off. If you do nothing, then you keep both!!

Ah, I remember my other idea now. Along with "grouping subscriptions" for myself, I would also like to make these subscription lists public.

Think of them as "Subsription Playlists". Like in iTunes when you make a "Smart Playlist".

So instead of just having a big space on our page that says "Subscriptions", have our "Sub playlists" there (if a user makes any), for everyone to enjoy. Then, when people click on our subscription playlists, they see everything we are subscribing too.

People could even Subscribe to the playlists themselves, if they like them.

I'd also like to group my friends into 'friend tiers'. Tops, almost tops, middle, the rest... whatever.

Other things, if my videos or comments or PMs are set to moderated posts, I'd like to be able to set who can post there without moderation. Friends, subscribers, subsriptions, or full public.

Other ideas... ideas for improving Groups (major work needed here, seriously bad and always has been since Youtube started), and Comments... and ah.

slyth66, which browser/os are you using?in ff3 mac bg is 8-12 px too high, in safari 4 mac it's 2 px too high (been spending the last 20 hours trying to make something that fits all browsers, but there seems to be some rendering differences

This may be a personal issue and not an issue with the whole layout. I recently experimented and turned the transparency to 100 percent on the wrapper and added boarders to my background. In Google Chrome, it looks nice and is aligned perfectly. But when I view it in IE and Firefox, the background is not lined up the way it is in Chrome and does not match up. I really like the transparency feature and would like the boarders to look nice cross-browser. Is this a personal issue with my background or is this an issue with the channel design?

http://www.youtube.com/Slyth66

hopefully you can see what I mean. This would be an issue many would have with the backgrounds.

What if we discover glitches after the July 15 release date? Will we still be able to come hear and report glitches/bugs?

Also, I found another glich. This is on renetto's and nalt's channel, and possibly other channels. It seems to happen to the channels that have lots of videos. In grid view, some video thumbnails overlaps towards the bottom of the list. If you are not able to see this on your end, I can make a screen capture.--

.:Muzik 4 Machines:.,

You didn't like the idea of the featured video pausing when the grid view button is clicked because you like to keep on listening to the video while you browse. I agree with you. But for me, it distracts me when I'm browsing though the videos in grid view. If the pause feature is added, it would be good to have an option to enable and disable the pause.

I have tried again and again with the new channel design (which I like) but can not get a background image to display.I select a jpg file 204Kb in size, the spinning upload symbol spins then nothing happens.Please can we sort this out.Thanks

suggestion:add an option to see who is unsubscribing a user or before unsubscribing a user the unsubber must say why he/she is unsubscribingyes im tired of seeing my subscribers dissapearwithout a reason and i want to know who and why!

I'm a web developer at A.T. Still University and recently designed our youtube EDU channel. I'm loving the capabilities I have to brand the school on youtube. Check it out at http://www.youtube.com/user/atstilluniversity

Again I would like to congratulate you on the great job you've done with the new channels. Here's some suggestions, along with a few glitches I'm experiencing.

SUGGESTIONS:

1) Along with the last log in date, you could have a section that tells whether the user is Online/Offline (Logged in to YouTube/Logged off of YouTube).

2) Instead of limiting it to 50%, you should have more transparency options for the Color Palettes section.

3) Allowing the option to set how many channel comments you want displayed.

4) A few more fonts would be nice! -- Comic Sans, Arial Bold, etc... :)

5) Let users rearrange their friends/subscribers/subscriptions in a different order.

6) Let users rearrange their playlists in a different order.

GLITCHES:** I use Internet Explore 8 on Windows Vista, and these are glitches I get **

1) Whenever I click "more info" under my featured video description, the scroll bar is broken when I scroll down to read the description.

2) Okay this one is a little complicated and hard to explain... bare with me... Whenever I make any changes to my channel on any tab (Settings, Themes and colors, Modules), when I click save change, the spinning wheel pops up over the cancel and save changes button. When it's done saving, it goes back to my channel. Here's the glitch: If I go back to the tab, the wheel is still over the save changes and cancel button, preventing me from making any changes, and forcing me to refresh the page... Did you get that? If so, tell me if you're having the same glitch...

3) The links in the channel description don't autolink -- it puts a space in them, which prevents them from being clicked.

That's all I can think of for now, I'll post anything else I run up on. Again, great job Brian! :)

You guys need to address the "revert back" buttons. They're about as functional as a sociopath. Please!It's nice, I guess, that you're trying something new for people, but some aren't all that hot for the new stuff.

.:Muzik 4 Machines:.,I didn't mean a big pause button. What I was thinking was maybe a user could enable and disable the pause somewhere in his or her account or in the channel and click "save changes" to save changes. After typing this I just realized a flaw in my suggestion. I forgot that other users would be viewing my channel too. Ignore my suggestion.

@ N/A that's why i suggested a pause button outside the player, so you click on grid, get tired of the music and can pause it without going back to the player (and losing track of where you were in the video list)

This is great! I really like the new channel design, and now with transparency, it's even cooler. I actually enjoyed designing my channel page. As a Graphic Designer, I am excited to see YouTube use this feature in the new channels.

A few suggestions I would like to make is adding more fonts, and improving the HD option for the videos. The side panel would move, and the video would expand to HD size right in the page.

This badly sucks. I'd never want to change this older channel type, the new one is more complicated and not so user-friendly. I'm annoyed of this. Why can't users decide, which channel they want to use?

Bug, grid view, favorites, scroll down very very far (I have over 1000 favorites), it doesn't play.

Bug, www.youtube.com/jinitron#play/favorites/0/Bb8kJV15Kns

Works.

youtube.com/jinitron#play/favorites/0/Bb8kJV15Kns

Doesn't work.

Also, when you link to a video that's deeper in the list, the video list doesn't match this position.

Ie7, XP Media

youtube.com/jinitron

Another suggestion, the favorite list should list what day each video was fav'd.

Sugg, when faving a video that YOU ALREADY FAV'd, please move it to the top of my favorite list.

Oh, and as for whether the video should pause in grid mode? I vote no. If I want it to pause, I will pause it manually. Maybe they can make the video show up transparently? Or, if that's too CPU intensive, move it to a thumbnail over your channel's avatar. Or leave it as is.

Suggestion: Videos in my "Recent Activity" should play in my channel video box.

Suggestion: Change Recent Activity to have 20 spots. Change it so it shows 3-5 of each "activity". Comments and ratings are the best thing to show, so those should be 5 each. 2 upload, 2 fav, and 2 friend, and 2 subscribe, and 2 announcements. This is by default. Users can change these numbers. (number of activities, and how many of each are guaranteed showing)

Hi. Thanks for this great update. I think I've discovered a bug: when I was viewing the contents of my channel in grid view and I clicked a video, it automatically started playing in Firefox, but not in IE. In IE it gets only highlighted but doesn't start to play automatically. Also sometimes when I change the transparency settings, they don't apply after I clicking the save button, I have to reload the theme and the old setting get loaded back but after this I can make the desired changes. Thanks.

I want to let you guys know it's like you're bragging about a small change in a design nobody likes. Can you guys actually listen for once? We don't want ths! You're deceiving us by taking away the visible ratings, you're taking away our choices, and you're forcing an ugly design on everyone! What focus groups told you this was better? If you're going to make changes to YouTube, make them for the better! Heck, it should say something to you when the top channels on YouTube haven't switched yet! They're making more money with the old channel setup, maybe you should take a hint and work harder on this design. You're making this too easy for your competitors.

I still have a problem that when I click on a video on someone's channel, and watch it through there, every few seconds the page refreshes, so the video keeps stuttering and stopping.Using Internet Explorer 8 on a Vista laptop, if that's in any way relevant.This glitch is still making these channels awful and is, I think, much more of a fix priority than any transparency issues or anything else minor.

I'm one of the old school fans, been here for three and a half years (TinyDancer500), and I'm *this* close to shutting up shop on July 15th.

The new design is too crowded and impersonal for me. For example, what happens to the description I have under my name on the left? In all the years I've been here, my playlists have never organized themselves alphabetically, which is quite annoying when I have, say, 4 different Sesame Street lists and no way of directing people from one to another (I have 34 playlists, all listed by date created, can't budge 'em), so I've had to highlight some on my channel page. It appears to me that that description will disappear, right?

Also, I've found many users with no vids of their own, but with terrific Favorites I can subscribe to. That option appears to be gone as well.

In the end, I only find myself asking why on earth *the* most popular and successful video-sharing site on the web needs to change so radically? There's a reason you've become so loved and respected in such a short time, it ain't broke, why are we trying to fix it?

1) When using full screen mode in IE8, the wrapper and module backgrounds disappear (except for the video area at the top). This is kind of annoying for me, because I prefer going to full screen (by pushing f11) in IE to edit my channel

Can you make the links and URLs clickable in the channel descriptions please?That is one of the issues with the new design.It's much easier to just click on a link instead of copying it then pasting it to your search bar.So are you going to make links and URLs clickable?

I'm glad this was fixed, I love making backgrounds but I was feeling completely trapped by the lack of transparency.

Another this you may want to work on is adding the option to not have the background centered or at least not tiled horizontally.At this point if I want to do something along the edge of the border I have to hope that people have the same width browser as me.

I like the transparency now! but i wish you could choose MORE options like the non-beta for transparency. and if you put links in your channel description they dont workplease fix it!~Youtube: CherryBlossom297

You can't ignore us forever, Brian! Soon YouTube will be deserted because of those crap new beta channels, and you'll still be wondering about it. I know it may seem that a lot of people like the beta channels on this specific blog post, but check out the comments of your own videos.

If you still think that a lot of people like the beta channels, get some therapy. Also, expect to get fired from YouTube for being so dumb!!!

And one more thing: Why are you doing this to yourself, Brian? You're making yourself the most hated man on the Internet! Why, WHY did you have to "fix" something that was working just fine before?! I admit there were some glitches on the old channel, but this one has WAY more! You've got to listen to us! Just because a few people like it you have to enforce the beta channels on everyone?! Now, that's absurd. It's not really YOUTube if the staff doesn't even listen to most of their loyal users.

Oh, well, you're the one who's gonna be hated by everyone. I hope you'll be embarrassed to go outside your house past July 15, because no one's gonna talk to you. Except for your friends, who might not even like you anymore. Have fun destroying YouTube, jerk.

Japanlover97, just shut the fuck up already. You are being a retarded idiot.

You hate the new channel that much? Then leave. I don't think those two subscribers you have are really going to miss you. Also, how much do you actually use Youtube when you only made one video from two or more years ago, have no favorited videos, and have only watched 64 videos since september 2006?

@ TaurusOxford: I have no idea what you're talking about. I'm not that japanlover97. There must be some kind of mistake. If you assume that I have the same YouTube username, then YOU'RE the retarded idiot. Don't make assumptions like that. I think I've made my point already. I have no videos. And thus, I have no subscribers. And I'm not telling my YouTube username. EVER.

Not to be a hater but I dis-like the new beta channel. I'm loving the old one and hatg the beta. It's just a design that's not cut out for some people. I don't think you should make everyone have the new beta channel. Just let us pick which one since some of us don't like it. Thanks.

i cant like um change my bg,every time i click on my pick frm my comp the channel always goes back to the normal channel b4 i can click saveit isnt my computer because i changed computers and it still wasnt working,please help me you tube!

Waiting for the channel backgroundYouTube SUCKSafter you upload a jpeg under 200k you cant click update channel and on the new stupid channels it also does not work (i even waited the 6 hours and tried all other ways) - if anyone knows how to fix this bug please tell meEnergeticMadness

thanks for restoring the tranparency! not sure if this is a bug or just an "unsupported browser issue" but i'm unable to view "levels" of transparency. it's all or nothing. i'm using FF 2.0.0.9 and Safari 3.0.4 on OS X 10.5.

At the very least give us the choice to keep the old channel design. Please don't force us to use what we don't want to. I have everything set up the way I like it and the new channel design ruins everything I've worked on.

Even though you guys are fixing all the problems. Alot of us still prefer the old channel. Most of us want it optional. I very hope you think more about this just as much as the Beta's problems. Even if you dont have it optional. Try the best you can to make it similiar to the old channels.

Unfortunately I have no idea what you are going on about. If I could make it transparent I would be able to see my background image. Another thing, I can't revert back to the old style page. So something should be done about this.